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A lug is a typically flattened protuberance, a handle or extrusion located on the side of a ceramics, jug, glass, vase, or other container. They are sometimes found on prehistoric ceramics and stone containers, such as on pots from ancient Egypt , Hembury ware, claw beakers , and boar spears .
Some have a looped handle on one side or a white coloured material pressed into the decoration, contrasting with the usual orange or brown ceramic. The traditional archeological interpretation is that the original, typical bell-beaker shape was replaced by the short-necked form, which in turn was replaced by long-necked bell-beakers.
An unusually large askos at the Louvre. Etruscan askos in the form of a rooster, 4th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Askos (Ancient Greek ἀσκός "tube"; plural: ἀσκοί - askoi) is the name given in modern terminology to a type of ancient Greek pottery vessel [1] used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil.
Vases generally share a similar shape. The foot or the base may be bulbous, flat, carinate, [1] or another shape. The body forms the main portion of the piece. Some vases have a shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck, which gives height, and a lip, where the vase flares back out at the top. Some vases are also given handles.
A lekythos (Ancient Greek: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil.It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug, with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is more like a modern jug.
The three tiers on the body of the vase: Greeks gods, War Council of Darius, and tax collection. Above Darius stands a line of Greek Gods: Artemis riding a stag, Apollo seated holding a swan, Aphrodite together with Eros, Zeus holding a winged thunderbolt, Hellas standing, Athena holding a shield, Apate holding two torches, Asia seated on an altar, next to a pillar holding a head (possibly of ...
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Patera from Georgia, likely depicting Fortuna (2nd century AD, [1] Georgian National Museum). In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera (Latin pronunciation:) or phiale (Ancient Greek: φιάλη [pʰi.á.lɛː]) [2] is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.